Publications

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Publications CBDD (see below for 2016 - 2024)

2025

Alvarado-Melendez, E. I., Ruessink, S.T., Strijbis, K., Wennekes, T. Selective labeling and visualization of viral and bacterial neuraminidases using ortho-quinone methide-based probes, RSC Chemical Biology 2025, 6, 12, 1909-1919 (DOI: 10.1039/D5CB00170F).

Basu, A., S. Archer-Hartmann, P. Chopra, M. Taherzadeh Ghahfarrokhi, X. Dong, N.G. Patel, Y. Zhang, B. Choudhury, K. Funato, D. Yellajoshyula, G.J. Boons, P. Azadi, R.J. Weiss. Quantitative HILIC-Q-TOF-MS analysis of glycosaminoglycans and non-reducing end carbohydrate biomarkers via glycan reductive isotopic labeling. Anal. Chem. 2025, 97(32): 17490-17500 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c02338).

Bosman, G.P., I.D. Stoof, H.P. Bastiaansen, L. Quarles van Ufford, J.M. Dobruchowska, J.H. Langenbach, B.M. Boruah, K.W. Moremen, A.E.H. Bentlage, S.N. Lissenberg-Thunnissen, G. Vidarsson, G.J. Boons. Bisecting N-acetylglucosamine of the N-glycan of immunoglobulin G does not affect binding to Fc gamma receptors. ACS Chem. Biol. 2025, 20(3): 680-689 (DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00807).

Bunyatov, M.I., G.J. Boons. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycosphingolipids having an HNK-1 epitope for erythrocyte cell surface remodeling. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147(29): 25306-25315 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04179).

Bunyatov, M.I., M.A. Wolfert, G.J. Boons. Divergent chemoenzymatic synthesis of sulfated ganglio-oligosaccharides for probing ligand requirements of glycan binding proteins. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64(11): e202415521 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202415521).

Cardenas, M., S. Compton, A. Hunt, P. Chopra, D.R. Perez, G.J. Boons, D.S. Rajao. Protocol to measure the kinetics of MHC class II-influenza A binding using biolayer interferometry. STAR Protoc. 2025, 6(4): 104155 (DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2025.104155).

Chao, L., Wennekes, T. Toward the Synthesis of 3, 3Difluoro Deaminated Sialic Acid (C3DFKDN), European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2025, 28, 30, e202500456 (DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202500456).

Chopra, P., S.D. Ray, C.K. Page, J.D. Shepard, A. Kandeil, T. Jeevan, A.S. Bowman, A.H. Ellebedy, R.J. Webby, R.P. de Vries, S.M. Tompkins, G.J. Boons. Receptor-binding specificity of a bovine influenza A virus. Nature 2025, 640(8059): E21-E27 (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08822-5).

de Paiva Froes Rocha R, Tomris I, Bowman CA, Stevens E, Kantorow J, Plitt CM, Peng W, Oeverdieck S, Galdino Andrade T, Ferguson JA, Jung DD, Marques RE, Herfst S, Snijder J, Chakraborty S, Torrents de la Peña A, Berndsen ZT, de Vries RP, Ward AB. Structural and immunological characterization of the H3 influenza hemagglutinin during antigenic drift. Nat. Commun. 2025. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-66375-7.)

Ezzatpour, S., K. Thakur, K. Erzoah Ndede, D.W. Buchholz, A. Choi, B. Imbiakha, J. Carter, D. Onofrei, B. Eaton, E. Postnikova, M. Murphy, B.C. Tapia, D. Bello, S. Pasari, A. Russo, M. Babayev, G.P. Holland, M.R. Holbrook, S.L. Caddy, S.J. Moran, S.M. Davachi, I.A. Monreal, J. Sahler, V. Ortega, J.M. Miranda, G.R. Whittaker, M.C. Jager, S.K. Bhagwat, P. Chopra, G.J. Boons, M. Marianski, A.B. Braunschweig, H.C. Aguilar. Broad-spectrum synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) inhibit viral entry across multiple virus families. Sci. Adv. 2025, 11(35): eady3554 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady3554).

Gagarinov, I.A., L. Liu, F. Torricella, J.N. Glushka, A.K. Malde, M. von Itzstein, G.J. Boons. Chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides derived from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 35B and D provides molecular insight in L-ficolin binding. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147(33): 30518-30527 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c12005).

Ghotekar, B.K., S.K. Bhagwat, P. Chopra, T. Buckley, G.J. Boons. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of asymmetric bisecting bi-, tri-, and tetra-antennary N-glycans. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147(41): 37357-37371 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c11009).

Kim, S., Li, Z., Choi, Y.-.g., Janssen, K., Langenbach, J.-.W.H., van den Brink, D.J., Büll, C., Joshi, B.S., Pomorski, A., Raz, V., Tanenbaum, M.E., Miesen, P. & Joo, C.RNA-associated glycoconjugates highlight potential ambiguities in glycoRNA analysis. Exp Mol Med 2025, 57: 2619–2628.

Li, Z., Joshi, B.S., Yin, H., Wijdeven, R.H., Koç, A., Zijlmans, D.W., Santos-Barriopedro, I., Mei, H., Wu, W., Shademan, M., Zawisza, F.M., Bos, E., Chopra, P., Tanenbaum, M.E., Sharp, T.H., Vermeulen, M., Raz, V. & Joo, C. Cell-surface RNA forms ternary complex with RNA-binding proteins and heparan sulfate to recruit immune receptors. Mol Cell 2025, 85(24): 4633-4650.e11.

Liang, R., F. Peccati, N.L.D. Ponse, E. Uslu, A.J.H. de Rooij, A.X. Han, G.J. Boons, L. Unione, R.P. de Vries. Epistasis in the receptor-binding domain of contemporary H3N2 viruses that reverted to bind sialylated di-LacNAc repeats. Cell Rep. 2025, 44(8): 116007 (DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116007).

Liu, Y., G.J. Boons. C-6-modified 2-F-fucose derivatives as inhibitors of fucosyltransferases. ChemBioChem 2025, 26(21): e202500624 (DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202500624).

Ong, JY, Alvarado-Melendez, E.I; Maliepaard, J.C.L, Reiding, K.R., Wennekes, T. Affinity-based covalent sialyltransferase probes enabled by ligand-directed chemistry, Chemical Science 2025,16,7,3336-3344 (DOI: 10.1039/D4SC07184K).

Page, C.K., M.H.M. Mubassir, P. Chopra, L.C. Gay, G. Geiger, S.D. Ray, J.D. Shepard, R.J. Miller, D. Perez, J. Bahl, G.J. Boons, S.M. Tompkins. N-glycosylation at the receptor binding site drives differences in receptor binding specificity between influenza B virus lineages. J. Virol. 2025, 99(11): e0103925 (DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01039-25).

Palmieri, F., M. Gueye, L. Vicario Del Rio, S. Bunschuh, P. Chopra, S. Mihaila, T. Vermonden, R. Levato, G.J. Boons. Photo-triggered hyaluronic acid hydrogel for 3D culture and cell recovery. ChemBioChem 2025, 26(22): e202500310 (DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202500310).

Palmieri, F., M. Waardenburg, J.M. Dobruchowska, E. Roditis, T. Vermonden, G.J. Boons. Preparation of poly-N-(methyl)aminooxy serine polypeptides by NCA ring-opening polymerization for modification with reducing oligosaccharides. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2025, 23(40): 9123-9131 (DOI: 10.1039/d5ob00985e).

Pereirinha da Silva, A.K., J.P. van Trijp, A. Montenarie, J.A. Fok, S. Sooksawasdi Na Ayudhya, R.J. Pieters, G.J. Boons, D. van Riel, R.P. de Vries, L. Bauer. Sialic acid-containing glycolipids extend the receptor repertoire of enterovirus-D68. ACS Infect. Dis. 2025, 11(8): 2090-2103 (DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.5c00063).

Pieters, R.J. Multivalent Siglec ligands. Carb. Res. Jul 2025 553 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2025.109520)

Rios Carrasco, M., T.H. Lin, X. Zhu, A. Gabarroca Garcia, E. Uslu, R. Liang, C.M. Spruit, M. Richard, G.J. Boons, I.A. Wilson, R.P. de Vries. The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2025, 122(16): e2419800122 (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419800122).

Sastre Toraño, J., J. Vreugdenhil, G.M. Vos, K. Hooijschuur, S. Vogelaar, C. Klein, J. Fjeldsted, B. Stahl, and G.J. Boons. De novo sequencing of complex glycans by ion mobility-mass spectrometry using a self-expanding reference database. Nat. Commun. 2025 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67069-w).

Singh, G., J. Huang, D. Bhavsar, K. Vasilev, J.A. Ferguson, G.J. Boons, V. Simon, R.P. de Vries, J. Han, A. Ward, F. Krammer. Characterization of the glycoproteins of fish and amphibian influenza B-like viruses. Sci. Adv. 2025, 11(34): eady8610 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady8610).

Walton, B., S. Abbodante, M.E. Marshall, J.M. Dobruchowska, A. Alvi, L.A. Gallagher, N. Vallikat, Z. Zhang, D.J. Wozniak, E.W. Yu, G.J. Boons, E. Pearlman, A. Rietsch. A biofilm-tropic Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage uses the exopolysaccharide Psl as receptor. Elife 2025, 13: RP102352 (DOI: 10.7554/eLife.102352).

Wang, H., van den Brink, D. J., Heesters, B. A., Parren, P. W. & Trouw, L. A. Local complement inhibition by selective precision-targeted therapies. Current Opinion in Immunology 98, 102687 (2026).

Wu, Y., J. Weber, A.L.M. Kimpel, L. Unione, E. Uslu, R.P. de Vries, G.J. Boons. Chemoenzymatic synthesis and biological recognition of a sulfonate isostere of 6sulfo-sialyl Lewisx. JACS Au 2025, 5(7): 3328-3338 (DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.5c00443).

Zhang, Z., R. Liang, K.C. Hooijschuur, R.P. de Vries, Z. Li, G.J. Boons. Chemoenzymatically synthesized o-acetylated gd3 gangliosides to examine viral receptor specificities in a cellular context. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025: e17989 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202517989).